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<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/working-groups/x3d-standards" target="_blank" id="OWA79e086a9-fee8-1ac3-2a6b-88ba920f6c5f" class="OWAAutoLink elementToProof" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.web3d.org/working-groups/x3d-standards" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">X3D
Standards Working Group</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> meets regularly to review continuing progress. </span></div>
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Primary work is by Dr. Dick Puk and myself as editors for these International Standards jointly reviewed and published with International Standards Organization (ISO), as members of U.S. National Standards Body INCITS.</div>
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Here are relevant specifications being revised.</div>
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<b>Assets</b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dGraphicsStandardsRelationships.png" id="OWA11ac4a29-bc9a-0217-a6ab-5cda12acb549" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dGraphicsStandardsRelationships.png" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">X3D
Graphics Standards Relationships</a></span> diagram provides "big picture"</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://mantis.web3d.org/view_all_bug_page.php" target="_blank" id="OWAc61fedd6-d95e-53a8-0929-368a81d90dc4" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://mantis.web3d.org/view_all_bug_page.php" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">Mantis
Issue Tracker</a></span> (Web3D member access)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://github.com/Web3DConsortium" target="_blank" id="OWAaac99a20-aee0-aeee-41a4-25b293bd6c16" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://github.com/Web3DConsortium" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">Github
specifications archive</a></span> (Web3D member access)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://www.iso.org/committee/45252.html" target="_blank" id="OWA189bbf58-d1d0-1d6b-60be-d2ca1e54051f" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.iso.org/committee/45252.html" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">ISO/IEC
SC24</a></span> Computer Graphics, image processing and environmental data representation</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://www.incits.org/committees/h3" target="_blank" id="OWA43831b17-b468-6dcc-8ee4-e587c6deae5c" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.incits.org/committees/h3" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">INCITS
H3</a></span> Graphics and Imaging </li></ul>
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<b>Draft specifications in progress</b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19776-1v4.0-WD1/Part01/X3D_XML.html" id="OWA06f30df4-1809-8f33-36c6-02ef21470dea" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19776-1v4.0-WD1/Part01/X3D_XML.html" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">X3D
XML Encoding 4.0</a></span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19776-2v4.0-WD1/Part02/X3D_ClassicVRML.html" target="_blank" id="OWAe14987d4-1319-7021-7516-5e8c5240247a" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19776-2v4.0-WD1/Part02/X3D_ClassicVRML.html" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">X3D
Classic VRML Encoding 4.0</a></span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;">
<div class="elementToProof" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD//Part01/Architecture.html" target="_blank" id="OWA5caa2d44-8ce8-39a1-5c45-a5bd8aaf0990" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD//Part01/Architecture.html" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">X3D
Architecture 4.1</a> <span style="color: rgb(59, 32, 77);">maintenance</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-2v4.0-WD1/Part02/X3D_SAI.html" target="_blank" id="OWAa427f570-ceba-de69-678c-1de10e5727e9" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-2v4.0-WD1/Part02/X3D_SAI.html" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">X3D
Scene Authoring Interface 4.0</a></span></li></ul>
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<b>Expected 2025 future work</b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19776-3/V3.2/Part03/X3D_Binary.html" id="OWAf5b6b581-37b2-91e6-68a1-f36dba87ae2d" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19776-3/V3.2/Part03/X3D_Binary.html" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">X3D
Compressed Binary Encoding (CBE)</a></span></li><ul style="margin: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.5em; padding-left: 0px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc;">
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Includes Fast Infoset, gzip, zip algorithms</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;">
Add Efficient XML Interchange, glTF binary (.glb)</li></ul>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><b><a href="https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19774/V2.0/index.html" target="_blank" id="OWA00dc4daa-3815-d48e-a8a2-d043bd74b883" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19774/V2.0/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">Humanoid
Animation (HAnim) </a></b></span>potential revisions version 2.1</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<div class="elementToProof">X3D JSON Encoding (<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/X3dToJson.html" target="_blank" id="OWA4f226c74-bd37-0e55-09e0-830b0ad52ec0" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/X3dToJson.html" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">implemented</a></span>)</div>
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X3D Java Programming (<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/java/X3DJSAIL.html" target="_blank" id="OWAda2917d3-8fb4-b765-a0a2-80e723e2fd08" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/java/X3DJSAIL.html" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">X3DJSAIL
implementation</a></span>)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;">
X3D Python Programming (<span style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189);"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/python/python.html" target="_blank" id="OWA437fd9da-9e58-2558-c22c-3f06b9c83e54" class="OWAAutoLink" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/python/python.html" style="color: rgb(0, 116, 189); margin: 0px;">X3DPSAIL
x3d.py implementation</a></span>)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;">
<div>X3D JavaScript Programming</div>
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<div class="elementToProof">X3D Semantic Web Turtle Encoding 4.0 (<a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/semantics/semantics.html" id="LPlnk788446" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/semantics/semantics.html">implemented</a>)</div>
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All inputs are always welcome. Issues can be discussed on <a href="https://www.web3d.org/community/public-mailing-lists" id="LPlnk536863" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.web3d.org/community/public-mailing-lists">
Web3D mailing lists</a> or submitted via <a href="https://mantis.web3d.org/bug_report_page.php" id="LPlnk631293" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://mantis.web3d.org/bug_report_page.php">
Mantis issue tracker</a>.</div>
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We have had a productive year (29 years of forward progression, actually) and look forward to even greater progress in 2025.</div>
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Have fun with X3D stability and versatility! 🙂</div>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 9pt;">all the best, Don</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 9pt;">Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br brutzman@nps.edu</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 9pt;">Watkins 270, MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA +1.831.656.2149</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 9pt;">X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics https://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman</span></p>
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